We’ve obviously entered the Emotional Roller-Coaster portion of the presidential campaign in which events and fortunes appear to be turning faster than many of us can tolerate, at least without several large high-balls filled with brown liquor.

Following a defeat in the first debate, Obama supporters careened through an array of emotions — dismay, anger, denial, fear — only to settle on panic-induced reloadings of Nate Silver’s blog to monitor the polling damage.

Meanwhile, the solid jobs report on Friday offered an opportunity to, you know, breathe, and to bask in some good news while returning to more enjoyable endeavors like hectoring conservative Truthers and Unskewers who ridiculously thought the 7.8 percent unemployment number was a vast Chicago conspiracy.